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Forget all that you know about the 16th arrondissement: La Rotonde de la Muette, a beautiful house reviewed and refurbished this summer by a duo of the most well-known architects from New York, bringing back cool to a neighbourhood that all of Paris had forgotten.
Photos: Mathieu Salvaing
Area
A deliciously bourgeois institution, at the end of the Rue de Passy. Opened thirty years ago by the Bénézet family and completely redone this summer, this brasserie is the starting point of the beautiful fauna of the 16th Parisian arrondissement, which serves a cocktail to start an evening, a late dinner or breakfast after an all-nighter in the expensive spots the golden triangle.
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Menu
An upgraded bistro, taken on by the young Sebastien Carabeux, trained at Ducasse, worked at Spoon, Rech or Goumard. Having perfectly mastered social foods bettered by a special attention to seasonal produce. The delectable: Sunday lamb leg, traditional beef stew or steamed organic salmon to order with a green juice for a healthy touch. A good reference for the everything from home, the sauce of the cheeseburger and the Aubrac beef come from their family farm.
Décor
An event on its own. Conceived by the New York firm of Roman and Williams, who completed their first French project here. To their credit, the Ace and Standard restaurants or, more recently, The Row boutique on the Upper East side and the private apartment of Gwyneth Paltrow, also other works in several cities such as Istanbul and Milan. This time the duo comprising of Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch revisited, without a misstep, the flavour of a French brasserie from an Art deco inspiration, with its muted spaces hidden behind the audience, its bar drowned in the backlighting, its traditional high ceilings and its game of mirrors between softened lighting and daylight very skilfully angled.
La Rotonde de la Muette, 12 chaussée de la Muette, Paris 16th .
www.rotondemuette.paris
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